Sponsored by TechSoup Global, 435 Brannan St., Suite 100, San Francisco, CA 94107, and Adobe Systems Incorporated, 345 Park Avenue, San Jose, CA 95100-2704 (jointly, "Sponsors")
Submissions must be made by organizations that have received Adobe product donations via www.techsoup.org (TechSoup’s donation web site) and have been determined by TechSoup in its sole discretion to have qualified for such donation on or before May 21, 2010. Submitting organizations must qualify for tax-exempt status under Section 501(c)(3) of the (U.S.) Internal Revenue Code; or be a charity registered with the Canada Revenue Agency (which is located and operating outside of Quebec Province); or be a public library in the United States or Canada. Charities and libraries in the Canadian province of Quebec and the states of Maryland, North Dakota and Vermont are not eligible.
Organizations that advocate, support or practice (or, in the sole discretion of Sponsors, are believed to advocate/support/practice) discrimination based on age, ethnicity, gender, national origin, disability, race, size, religion, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic status are NOT eligible.
Organizations that are donation recipients through any of the following Adobe-administered product donation programs and have not received Adobe product donations through TechSoup Stock are also NOT eligible: Adobe Youth Voices (AYV), Adobe Direct Donation Program, Adobe Employee Product Donation Program for K-12 Schools (EPDP K-12).
The contact person (i.e., authorized representative) for the submitting organization must be 21 years of age or older and a legal resident of the United States (excluding Maryland, North Dakota and Vermont) or Canada (excluding Quebec Province) as of May 1, 2010. All other persons/entities are NOT eligible to participate in the Contest or win a prize.
Limit one submission (online submission form, essay and creative work) per organization. Essay and creative work must be solely the original work of organization. Do not copy the work of any other person or entity. This incliudes both essay content and art contained in the creative work. Works previously submitted, in whole or in part, to any contest sponsored by TechSoup Global will not be considered. Essays and/or creative works deemed by Sponsors in their sole discretion as inappropriate, objectionable or unfit for publication or that Sponsors determine in their sole discretion are not in compliance with these Official Rules will be disqualified. Essays may only be included in the indicated field on submission form; attachments or other forms of submission of the essays are not permitted.
Creative Works may be submitted via upload through the online submission form or a link may be provided to works that are already available and viewable online. Creative Works to be uploaded through the submission page cannot exceed the maximum allowable file size of 20 megabytes. Uploaded files must be one of the following file types: .jpg, .png, .pdf, .gif .tif, .eps, .psd, 300 dpi, .swf, .mov, .wmv, .avi, mp4, or MP3. If the creative piece is in another file format (e.g. .doc, .ppt), please submit it in a .pdf format.
The online form, essay and creative work must all be submitted at the same time; partial submissions will not be accepted.
Judging will occur over the 3 weeks following the close of the submission period on May 21, 2010, and the contact persons of the winning organizations will be notified by e-mail and/or phone thereafter, or by June 14, 2010 at the latest.
If the distribution and quality of entries among the four categories results in the Sponsors’ determination of an inequitable result in its sole discretion, the Sponsors reserve the right to eliminate categories and reassign the entries and reallocate prizes to the remaining categories as appropriate. The organization’s contact person individually will have no right to the prize. No prize transfer will be permitted. There will be no prize substitution except at Sponsor’s sole discretion due to prize unavailability for any reason and only then for prize of comparable value. Any taxes on prize are the sole responsibility of winning organization.
Agreement to Rules/Releases. The organization’s contact person (on behalf of him/herself and his/her organization) agrees to (i) abide by and be bound by these Official Rules and the decisions of Sponsors and the judges, which are final and binding in all respects; (ii) release, indemnify and hold harmless Sponsors, judges, their respective parent companies, affiliates, subsidiaries, agencies and the directors, officers, agents, shareholders, representatives and employees of any of the above entities, from any and all liability associated with participation in the Contest and receipt, acceptance, possession or use/misuse of prize; (iii) if organization wins a prize, by accepting prize on behalf of organization, to grant Sponsors and their designees the right to print, publish, broadcast and use, worldwide in any media now known or hereafter developed, including but not limited to the world wide web, at any time or times, the name of the winning organization and other identifying information concerning the organization for advertising, trade and promotional purposes without additional compensation, and without review, approval or further notice.
As part of the prize notification, the winning organizations will be asked to sign an affidavit of eligibility, a liability release and a publicity release (where legal). Refusal to sign these documents or failure to sign them within 15 days of notification may result in the forfeiture of the prize and the selection of an alternate winner at the discretion of the Sponsors.